HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Fuck streaming. Pirate all the things!
That’s how I know my money doesn’t end on fifhty hands!
I just wish artists had like a direct donation address, without absolutely any intermediates, so I could pay them for their work. But I’d rather not pay anything that pay most of my money to undeserving people.
Bandcamp should be used by more musicians.
Any way to get recommendations while pirating?
Last.fm, but pay the artists somehow, concerts, merch or imo one of the streaming platforms.
Those duckers, who used to have a free database where users would collect users ’ playing list until they decided they have enough and turned into a subscription?
Thanks but maybe I’m a bit slow, how does that work?
Say I use mplayer or aplay to play from my local ~/Music/ directory, or even VLC to play from my minidlna server on my RaspberryPi. Say I play a tune named tune.ogg which has metadata saying “Tsunami” by the artist “R3HAB” and it ends. How could my player then pick the next song, from my library or elsewhere, not randomly but rather because it’s related somehow to this song?
Oh, I took your original question more generically. You can use last.fm to provide you with recommendations in general according to what you listen to (after scrobbling your library for a while), but acquiring the recommendations (and/or integrating into your active playlist) is a whole other thing. I’m sure it’s possible but I don’t know of out of the box way. Might be a plugin or something out there for it somewhere. That’s why the convenience of streaming can be pretty nice.
That way the artists get even less than with Spotify.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Libraries have a ton of CDs too… even newer ones.
HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yep, but only local artists, this is why I buy CDs when I travel internationally.